Recent examples of newly (re-)opened institutions in Ukraine include Lviv’s Jam Factory (2023) and Kyiv’s Pavilion of Culture (2025).
Which sometimes, as he put it, seemed to be the result “of the museum curators’ tourism itinerary.” Piotr Piotrowski, “New Museums in East-Central Europe: Between Traumaphobia and Traumaphilia,” in 1968/1989: Political Upheaval and Artistic Change, ed. Claire Bishop and Marta Dziewańska (Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw, 2009), 158.
Piotrowski, “New Museums in East-Central Europe,” 160.
Piotrowski, “New Museums in East-Central Europe,” 160.
Katarzyna Murawska-Muthesius and Piotr Piotrowski, eds, From Museum Critique to the Critical Museum (Farnham, UK: Ashgate, 2015).
For kindred explorations of radicality as rootedness, see, for example, Daša Anosova, Daniel Roche, Michał Murawski, and e-flux Architecture, “Editorial,” Reconstruction (e-flux Architecture, September 2023), ➝.
An elaboration of “shrapnel theory” in the context of empire, war, and the everyday architecture of shopping malls, is provided in Oliver Banatvala, “Martial Malleability: Shopping Malls and the Everyday Urban Experience of Russia’s War Against Ukraine” (PhD diss., University College London, 2026).
With thanks to Aris Komporozos-Athanasiou for helping to formulate this expression; for an attempt to work towards a generative politics of friendship extracted from the toxic debris of neo-Stalinist Friendship, see Michał Murawski, A Form of Friendship: The Museum on the Square, with Muzeum Sztuki Nowoczesnej w Warszawie (Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw; University of Chicago Press, 2024), especially 41–64. For other recent attempts to formulate ideas of “radical friendship,” see Laura C. Forster and Joel White, Friends in Common: Radical Friendship and Everyday Solidarities (London: Pluto Press, 2025); Alva Gotby, They Call It Love: The Politics of Emotional Life (London and New York: Verso, 2023); Leela Gandhi, Affective Communities Anticolonial Thought, Fin-De-Siècle Radicalism, and the Politics of Friendship, Politics, History, and Culture (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2006). See also Slavs and Tatars, Friendship of Nations: Polish Shi’ite Showbiz: Slavs and Tatars (Book Works, 2013).
This section reproduces fragments from, and elaborates on, the text of Michał Murawski, “After the battle, an Amputated Form of Friendship Returns,” in Murawski, A Form of Friendship, 17–83; as well as “Bare Friendship, Future Friendship: Sarah Wilson, Agata Jakubowska and Michał Murawski in Conversation,” in A Form of Friendship, 88–111.
See Alina Stamenova et al., “A Center De-Centered,” Reconstruction (e-flux Architecture, December 2024), ➝.
